Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 19

International students join TA volunteer tradition

Serving community characterizes the Thornton
Academy tradition. Students and staff
collectively give over 10,000 hours of community
service time to everything from Mary’s Walk
to food drives to coastal cleanup to visiting
elders. Thornton Academy passes this tradition
on to the students who enter our community
from over 20 countries around the world. They
roll up their sleeves and represent Thornton
Academy well, alongside local students. In one
fall weekend, students assisted with a door-todoor food drive, the Hugs for Hayley walk, and
the Pumpkin Patch fundraiser at the Seashore
Trolley Museum. (Photos top and right at the
Hayley’s Walk event by Yana Levushevska ’16
and below at the Pumpkin Patch event by Phil
Morse).

Thornton Academy students from China and Brazil assisted the Seashore Trolley Museum in
Arundel with a major fundraising event—Pumpkin Patch Trolley: (L to R): Yunhui "Plant" Wu ’18,
Haoqin "Jack" Yang ’17, Leonardo Borges ’17, Bowen Yang ’18, Yuhong "Frank" Zhu ’16.
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